On Jul 22, 2014, at 4:32 PM, Adam Compton <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 7/22/14, 1:29 PM, Derek Balling wrote: >> On Jul 22, 2014, at 4:21 PM, Adam Compton <[email protected]> wrote: >>> If this is indeed what Verizon is doing, then there's really no opportunity >>> for them to complain when Netflix points the finger at Verizon as the >>> reason for poor streaming performance. >> So it's a blame the victim mindset? "We're flooding you, but it's your fault >> you can't handle it" ? > Again, assuming your premise, it seems more like "We're flooding you, but > since you're making a business decision to not upgrade your peering capacity, > we're going to try and change your cost/benefit calculations with bad PR". Certainly. And (as noted earlier) that is easier for Netflix to do because we're culturally trained to hate the big evil megacorp telco. But it doesn't make Netflix's position any more "right", or that the government should step in and interfere, no matter how many people think otherwise. D
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